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delicious isn’t a system for managing bookmarks, or for sharing bookmarks. It’s a system for categorizing addresses (urls).

hmm. do the delicious people know this? because if they do, then there are some obvious changes. I mean, I should be able to add multiple descriptions to the same url. As in I should be able to bookmark the same url twice, at different times, for different reasons. And a limit of 250 characters in the “extended” field? But I guess there’s lots on the todo list (hopefully including the date as a tag, and the id of the user (not the name of the user, but some unique ID key that corresponds to the poster)).

And doesn’t this put flickr’s validity (not viability, validity) in question? Because who cares what the tags of jpeg’s are? I care about the tags of addresses, and then I want to know the attributes of that address. Stuff like whether it is “viewable”? or “listenable”? Seems to me that if flickr did too good a job of making itself transparent (ie: giving each picture it’s own address without a bunch of crap around it), delicious could handle all of it’s tagging.

Same thing with movies, or audio files. I don’t want a tagging system for each. I want delicious to automatically add a tag “audio” if the file ends with an MP3, VCF, or any other relevant extensions (possibly addresses of xml stuff too like foaf files and rss feeds?). I guess that I wondering if delicious (or something like it) could become the glue of the internet?

Many of you have been thinking about this stuff more than I have. Let me know if I’m out in left field or if I just missed this conversation the first time around.

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